Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-11-09 | Page 24 | Strange as it Seems

T STRANGE AS IT SEEMS SEEMS' By John Hix Mix P PAcK HORSEY Ho St StIN IN I 9 GEoRbE OF CPI fORNI weA WEAR 3 WHOLE t It-t 1111 Wit W 1 c M SEASONS Jf J- J A f 1 W HAVE I Ji r p r THE To r 1 t f j I ND SADIE P Dam Scotland lan I 1 s OH ft A HoMI CABIE CAR ii q i 0 SAVE A MM i To SCHOOL 7 fl t 1 tj TO O SCHOOL BY AIR Going to school is fun for D David vid and Sadie McGinley of Dumfries Dumfries- shire Scotland for they ride each morning across the River Nith on a suspended cable car This improvised pulley system was erected to save the children a mile five-mile walk up the river across a bridge and back along the other bank SHOD HORSES Strange as it seems pack horses in the high Sierras of California must wear snowshoes in the winter time to keep from sinking through the deep drifts that pile up along the roads Made of strong planking the shoes are a foot or more across and andare andare andare are held hed to the horses' horses hooves with metal straps straps' and clamps Shod in inthis inthis inthis this manner heavy draft horses are able to pull loads over ovel snow-covered snow toads roads which otherwise would make such travel impossible Copyright 1938 for The for The Telegram